OmniThink: Expanding Knowledge Boundaries in Machine Writing through Thinking

Xi Ze Kun, Wenbiao Yin, Jizhan Fang, Jialong Wu, Runnan Fang, Ningyu Zhang, Jiang Yong, pengjun xie, Fei Huang, Huajun Chen

OmniThink: Expanding Knowledge Boundaries in Machine Writing through Thinking: 45 upvotes on Hugging Face Daily Papers, #2 of 12 papers on 2025-01-17. Day-by-day upvote history.

Machine writing with large language models often relies on retrieval-augmented generation. However, these approaches remain confined within the boundaries of the model's predefined scope, limiting the generation of content with rich information. Specifically, vanilla-retrieved information tends to lack depth, utility, and suffers from redundancy, which negatively impacts the quality of generated articles, leading to shallow, repetitive, and unoriginal outputs. To address these issues, we propose OmniThink, a machine writing framework that emulates the human-like process of iterative expansion and reflection. The core idea behind OmniThink is to simulate the cognitive behavior of learners as they progressively deepen their knowledge of the topics. Experimental results demonstrate that OmniThink improves the knowledge density of generated articles without compromising metrics such as coherence and depth. Human evaluations and expert feedback further highlight the potential of OmniThink to address real-world challenges in the generation of long-form articles.

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